RADIATION PHYSICS AND RADIATION PROTECTION
- Overview
- Assessment methods
- Learning objectives
- Contents
- Full programme
- Bibliography
- Teaching methods
Degree course:
Corso di Long single cycle degree (6 years) in MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Academic year when starting the degree:
2016/2017
Year:
6
Academic year in which the course will be held:
2021/2022
Course type:
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Credits:
1
Period:
Second semester
Standard lectures hours:
12
Detail of lecture’s hours:
Lesson (12 hours)
Requirements:
Mathematics and Physics at high school level.
Written test
Assessment:
Voto Finale
Understand the theoretical basis of radiation physics and of radiation protection, with the aim of understanding European directives on the subject, such as the Euratom 59/2013 one.
- Matter, atoms and nuclei
- Ionising radiation
- Elements and principles of radiation protection
- Electromagnetic radiation
- X-rays and gamma-rays
- Atoms and nuclei
- Nuclear instability
- Alpha and beta radiation
- Elements of radiation protection
- Principles of radiation protection
- Euratom 29/2013 directive
- D. Scannicchio, Fisica Biomedica, III edizione, chapters 24-27.
- Slides
- Whiteboard, when necessary to answer questions and to deepen some concepts
- Resolution of exercises